Brenda Kennelly and Eimear Barry have over thirty years experience between them working in Financial Services. Their experience encompasses many years providing management development, coaching and internal consultancy.

They have extensive experience in heading up the following areas:

Training and Development
Human Resources
Technology based learning
Client Services
Global Custody
Transfer Agency

Eimear Barry's experience combines a background in psychology and development with many years working in training & development and Human Resources within Financial Services. Her experience encompasses management development, coaching and internal consultancy, She has been actively involved in the Irish Funds Industry Association and served as Chairman of the Training Committee. Prior to setting up LDC, Eimear's last position was Head of Learning and Development with JP Morgan (European Mutual Fund Services). She holds a Degree in Psychology, a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology and a Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management. She is a Member of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Irish Institute of Training and Development and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She also co-authored a book on workplace communication entitled "Talking The Talk" which was published in October 2004.

Brenda Kennelly has many years experience working with leading financial institutions including BNP, European Investment Bank, AIB and JPMorgan where she was Vice President, Transfer Agency.

Brenda's expertise covers Learning & Development and Operations Management.
Her experience within Learning & Development includes, designing & delivering management and funds-related technical training programmes, training needs analysis, implementing mentoring schemes, internal coaching. Brenda has been involved at Funds industry level where she designed the custody curriculum of the Certificate in Mutual Funds with the Institute of Bankers and lectured on this for many years.

Within Operations Management, Brenda has been instrumental in leading teams through change by successfully initiating and implementing process re-engineering initiatives for various product lines of business. Her key strengths include her motivational and communication skills, which have enhanced the teams she has managed and worked with Brenda is a fully accredited Business & Life Coach and a certified Practitioner of NLP. She holds Diplomas in Accounting & Finance as well as Business Studies. She is also a fluent French speaker.